In Indonesia, activists who recently won a court ruling requiring mandatory labelling on asbestos products are now being sued ...

Moreover, rarely is anyone exposed to asbestos textile fibres today. On that precarious basis, the Collegium estimated 10 times the risk for chrysotile than that of any previous risk assessment, yet ...

A cohort of 889 men and 1077 women employed for at least 1 month between 1946 and 1984 by a former Italian leading asbestos (mainly textile) company, characterised by extremely heavy exposures ...

In late 2023, Janet was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Shortly afterwards, in January ...

On March 14, 1924, Nellie Kershaw, a textile worker in England, died after years of mysterious illness. Her death would mark ...

Objectives: This report provides an update of the mortality experience of a cohort of South Carolina asbestos textile workers. Methods: A cohort of 3072 workers exposed to chrysotile in a South ...

We analysed data from a cohort of 1966 subjects (889 men and 1077 women) employed by an Italian asbestos (mainly textile) company in the period 1946–1984, who were followed-up to 2004. A total ...

D Loomis, J M Dement, S H Wolf, D B Richardson, Lung cancer mortality and fibre exposures among North Carolina asbestos textile workers, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 66, No. 8 (August ...

The man was 33 and employed for 14 years in an asbestos textile factory, 10 of them inside the very dusty carding room. The patient claimed to have worked beside 10 others, and was the last survivor.

What this paper adds Asbestos exposure levels were much higher in North Carolina textile plants compared to the South Carolina plant, especially in earlier years. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM ...

For much of the 19th and 20th century, the mining and use of asbestos saw near-constant growth, with virtually every material used in the construction of homes, offices, ships, road networks and in… ...

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 64, No. 9 (Sep., 2007), pp. 616-625 (10 pages) Objectives: This report provides an update of the mortality experience of a cohort of South Carolina ...